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Top 25 David E. Kelley Quotes (2025 Update)

David E. Kelley Quote: “You learn more when things go wrong.”

1. “You learn more when things go wrong.”

— David E. Kelley

David E. Kelley Quote: “The more lawyers there are, the more people are out there to encourage others not to go to law school.”

2. “The more lawyers there are, the more people are out there to encourage others not to go to law school.”

— David E. Kelley

David E. Kelley Quote: “If you interview people or friends who work with me, they would say I’m private or internal or don’t emote a lot. Yet I do it every day for 10 million people. I just don’t do it for the 30 people I’m in the room with.”

3. “If you interview people or friends who work with me, they would say I’m private or internal or don’t emote a lot. Yet I do it every day for 10 million people. I just don’t do it for the 30 people I’m in the room with.”

— David E. Kelley

David E. Kelley Quote: “It gets harder and harder to succeed and find audiences with the 500-channel universe, the remote control, and people being so trigger happy with that remote control. It just gets harder to get a foothold.”

4. “It gets harder and harder to succeed and find audiences with the 500-channel universe, the remote control, and people being so trigger happy with that remote control. It just gets harder to get a foothold.”

— David E. Kelley

David E. Kelley Quote: “You’ve got to honor your relationship with your audience – that they sit down because they want to be entertained. And that doesn’t mean you can’t provoke them and antagonize them and challenge them in the course of the entertainment as long as you keep the entertainment part of the equation alive.”

5. “You’ve got to honor your relationship with your audience – that they sit down because they want to be entertained. And that doesn’t mean you can’t provoke them and antagonize them and challenge them in the course of the entertainment as long as you keep the entertainment part of the equation alive.”

— David E. Kelley

David E. Kelley Quote: “I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it’s our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics.”

6. “I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it’s our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics.”

— David E. Kelley

David E. Kelley Quote: “I don’t think it’s that strange that a show has sort of a bumpy beginning. It’s just part and parcel of the process.”

7. “I don’t think it’s that strange that a show has sort of a bumpy beginning. It’s just part and parcel of the process.”

— David E. Kelley

David E. Kelley Quote: “But Steven Bochco was smart; he knew that viewers were smart.”

8. “But Steven Bochco was smart; he knew that viewers were smart.”

— David E. Kelley

David E. Kelley Quote: “Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.”

9. “Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.”

— David E. Kelley

David E. Kelley Quote: “The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am.”

10. “The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am.”

— David E. Kelley

David E. Kelley Quote: “When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that’s a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn’t right.”

11. “When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that’s a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn’t right.”

— David E. Kelley

David E. Kelley Quote: “Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it.”

12. “Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it.”

— David E. Kelley

David E. Kelley Quote: “In retrospect, I think it’s a plus, because now we’ve been able to go back and spend extra time on each of those episodes and make them better.”

13. “In retrospect, I think it’s a plus, because now we’ve been able to go back and spend extra time on each of those episodes and make them better.”

— David E. Kelley

David E. Kelley Quote: “People are out of their home on a Saturday night or they’re at the movies or they’re at dinner and a lot of the people who flip on the television are doing just that. They may have never seen your show before and you can’t count on to your audience to be there week in and week out.”

14. “People are out of their home on a Saturday night or they’re at the movies or they’re at dinner and a lot of the people who flip on the television are doing just that. They may have never seen your show before and you can’t count on to your audience to be there week in and week out.”

— David E. Kelley

David E. Kelley Quote: “When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you.”

15. “When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you.”

— David E. Kelley

David E. Kelley Quote: “I don’t think I could write a straight drama.”

16. “I don’t think I could write a straight drama.”

— David E. Kelley

David E. Kelley Quote: “So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.”

17. “So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.”

— David E. Kelley

David E. Kelley Quote: “When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn’t feel laboring, that’s usually a good sign for me.”

18. “When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn’t feel laboring, that’s usually a good sign for me.”

— David E. Kelley

David E. Kelley Quote: “We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social.”

19. “We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social.”

— David E. Kelley

David E. Kelley Quote: “For me, I’m happy to succeed on any network.”

20. “For me, I’m happy to succeed on any network.”

— David E. Kelley

David E. Kelley Quote: “But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don’t meet every day.”

21. “But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don’t meet every day.”

— David E. Kelley

David E. Kelley Quote: “I’ve never really told jokes. I’m not good at it.”

22. “I’ve never really told jokes. I’m not good at it.”

— David E. Kelley

David E. Kelley Quote: “My court skills may have atrophied.”

23. “My court skills may have atrophied.”

— David E. Kelley

David E. Kelley Quote: “I think the law changes, which is a nice luxury.”

24. “I think the law changes, which is a nice luxury.”

— David E. Kelley

David E. Kelley Quote: “I never thought of myself as a writer.”

25. “I never thought of myself as a writer.”

— David E. Kelley

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